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About The Independent South. (Waynesboro, Ga.) 1860-186? | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1861)
AT 1 «>, TELE-GRAPHIC, Seces-ion «i"l'r[iitc-s«cc. Montgomery, A la., May 8. Tennessee has declared herself out of the l'Y.lornl Uuion by tlio State Legislature. The people will vnlV on the ordinance of secession on the Sth of June next. A military league has been form ed with the Confederate States, and coiiliiimd by the Legislature—the expenses of the war to ho borne by the Confederacy army, acting under j -■he Confederate States authority. Foreign Sew*. [The following news reaches us via Montgomery:] French journals published the Pope’s protest against crowning Vic tor Emmanuel King of Italy. The Paris Bourse was weak.— llentes were quoted at GSf 38c. “jlixie.” New A’ork, May 8. John A. Dix, Esq., has accepted the Major-Generalship of the New York forces. Only three Venr Troops Wanted Washington, May 8. The War Department here has telegraphed to Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, that no additional troops arc wanted here unless they will enlist for 3 years. About Senator liayaril. Pmr.ADKi.rniA, May 8. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, ar rived here this .morning, but has again left for Wilmington, Del., for fearofa personal assaulter) account of his Southern proclivities. Earier Preparing for War. A LEX ax DittA, A’a., May S. li is reported here that a battery has becu erected opposite Gen. Bai ler's station on tho Patapseo River, which can eifectuidlv rake his com Tho Government has duclim accept more than one regime: three months volunteers from A Movement* of Vessels.' New York, Slay 8. Tho schooner John, front Charles ton, has arrived at Annnpp.dis. Baltimore, May 8. Suspicious crafts are fitting out here. They will be overhaul' d on the Buy. rate Stales. General Ilarnev has been ordered to St. Louis. The passenger trains between Baltimore and Philadelphia have re sumed their trips. Largo numbers of transpci! coming Ponnsylvr.nia I.crrlMnlure. Harrisburg, Pa., May 8. Somonction was taken in the Leg islature hero in reference to Senator Mason’s property, in this State. A motion was made to extend the suspension of specie payments by the Pennsylvania Banks until January, 18G2. A Lieutenant Arrested. Baltimore, May 8. Lieut. Fauntelroy of the Navy, Ili^iciilonr. We hope our readers will excuse us for publishing thefolloVlng short •Attract from a lengthy article in the arc ; London Chronic!.', but it is so rich, j run* and racy, wc cannot forbear: ‘ Ever rime Mr. Lincoln's uscent to the Presidential chair, the cruci- i ties of the slave owners have been multiplied arid intensified, because it is feared that, .unless a system of terror he established, the hereditary bondsmen will make weapons of their chuins and crush oppression itself under the heel of revolted sla very. Not in Algiers, when tho Deys were at tho summit of their execrable power; not in Rome, when tho poor captive girl, after being was arrested liereen route for Wash- I fln S itioUs] - v ,,b,,si ' d - wn3 flun S iQt ° 11 irn'ton ! l 10m 'i llot 111 Russia, when tho executioner cuts out tho tonguo of his knouted victim, have horrors more terrible been recorded thun Stopping the Supplies. LoLMsvftx.E, May 8. The Surveyor of Customs at this j have been testified to by unwilling port has been ordered by his Gov- j wilncssess since the triumph of Mr. eminent to prevent all shipments of arms, munitions and provisions to the seceded States, passing by or go ing through to Louisville. Soutfict’ti Congress. . Moxtgojiery, May 8.. In Congress to-day President Cobb read a telegraphic dispatch from D. P. Hill, Commissioner to Arkansas, announcing that the Convention of that State, on the 6th | inst., passed unanimously an uncon ditional ordinance of secession. Mr. Morton, of Florida., offered ki resolution of enquiry into tho pflD priety of appointing Chaplains in me.nd. Butler, it is said, is prepar- j *^ ie °rmy. Adopted, ing to lake it. ! Mr'. Ocliiltrcc, of Texas, iutroduc- jed a hill providing compensation for Wiia: Gen. CocJsc Hays. New York, May S. Brigadier General Cocke says, that Gen. Ruggles is quartered at Fredericksburg, V.:.,—Cocke to take position in front of Washington, in connection with the commanding of ficer at Harprr’s Ferry, and thus cover and defend the Potomac bor der Against Northern invasion. Gen. Cocku denies that the Capi tol has ever been threatened by the Confederate State authorities; but Gen. Scott has ordered a rapid augmentation or forces at Washing ton. Frederick, Md., May 10. Two companies of Baltimore vnl Lincoln. The overworked, under fed, miserably clad, and wretchedly lodged slaves, have been compelled, i as a means of repressing their intcl- | ligence, to work in iron collurs, to ! sleep in the stocks, to drag heavy chains at their feet, .to- wear yokes, bells and copper horns; to stand na ked while their masters or mistress es brand them infamously, to have their teeth drawn, to have red pep per rubbed into their excoriated flesh, to he bathed in turpentine, to be thrust into sacks with mad cats, to have their fingers amputated,, to be shaved, and lobe whipped from neck to heels with red hot iroi.s. It is of no avail to deny this impeachment. Congress itself, which contains a majority of slave-owners, admits the truth. Tho American journals teem with advertisements of slaves whoso bodies are marked indelibly with tho traces of torture. Cases aro fre quently tried in the law courts of the Union masters who have not only flogged their black girls to death but have deliberately carved their flesh from their bones; and since tho beginning of the panic caused by Mr, Lincoln’s election, these abomina tions have, been redoubled." Tho above, says tho New York Day Book, must have been written by some one just recovering from delirium tremens. We m e inclined to think our lamented “three legged Willie” would call it “a lordly, tall, huge, overgrown lie.” the disbursing officers of the several j Executive Departments. Mr.. Conrad, of Louisiana., intro duced a motion to appoint a Conv- uiiftee on Claims. Adopted. Congress then went into secret session. ^ Postal Arrnagerncul. Montgomery, May 8. The Postal 'Department of the Confederate States are ready to take cjjafgcof the mails at any moment Congress may direct. Office seal, books, blanks, routes, and clerical force, arc all complete. No deten tion ot the mails need be nppreiicnd- jed in consequence of any policy Em in's government mny pursue, Washington, May 10. 1.11c \\ ar Department. has receiv- wiry an AYill :roi Vol- jed information that 50,000 men ar.- within two days inarch of Riolunonc 1 . r: ill eel 1 . Njmv York, April 27,1861. Editor of N. Y. News: 1 am an Irishman. I linvo been asked why, I did not volunteer and march to put down the rebellion in inteers passed here cu route to join ,, |U Bouth . Mav I „ ive three ofrny f he A lrginia Army. j ,, ; , , J CiiAMiiERSDCiicr, Pa., Mny 10. !™ so,ls . tl,ron 8 h your columns?— It is retiorted that the Virginians j 1 t y - v r luo , arc fortifying the heights on the: L 1 was n volunteer ,n our army Maryland side of. the Potomac.— j 111 Mexico, and while I was there, iTIiere are already about 6,000 Co::-! the mat who now control and urgu jfederat*' t:-wq>R -f 11s Jluil war, were at home, and From Harper's Ferry. j opposing the war against a foreign Philadelphia, May 0. [foe. Seward, Greyly, Corwin, Lin. Tho Virginia troops are reported 1 coin arid Beecher, &c., denounced to he concentrating in force at liar- j the war and tho men who were car- IVoboily Seared. Washington, May 9. The Government feels no appre hension of an attack on Cairo. j rying it on. II. A few years ago, tho Know- Nothing parly seemed to ho sweep ing tho whole country before them, jam! State after State, Massachu setts and New A’oik even joined — their ranks, What Gen. Leo Says. The Irishman and the German, AVakihngtox, Mny 9. the Catholic, was threatened with General Leo, of the Virginia.a withdrawal of tho rights anil |lroops, says that the Virginians j equality which the Constitution and hull not cross tho Slate line, unless j the laws secured to them, hey arc attackc-il. Where, then, wasJhe first hold, — manly nud successful uprising in tho From ."lonigoinery, ; Stales, for the foreign lmrn citizen, Montgomery, May 9. mid (lie right:- of conscience for thu 'Nothing done in public by Con- Catholic? ;ress to-day. An act was passed in. crcl session to raise an additional |lbreo to nerve during the war. and to tuthome the President to accept tli It was in Old Viiginia! III. If I deny the right of the Southern people to state their griuv- ( iiceii, and to judge when they may service of volunteers without regard ret up a Government for themselves 'to their place of the enlistment, how can I hereafter pustnin Ireland Another act uvr: urn :!o public wlvch and Hungary wh n they shal] d n • tf ^
